Eighteen years after the historic '100 days of genocide' in Rwanda the United States Government has suddenly produced never-before-seen satellite images to support the genocide extradition trial of a former Rwandan now U.S. citizen in New Hampshire (USA). The existence of satellite imagery from 1994 would enable the 'international community' to further explore heretofore hidden facts about the double presidential assassinations of April 6 or massacres committed before, during and after 1994. As the world commemorates the official Rwanda genocide story on the 18th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide the people of Central Africa continue to suffer under the brutal terrorism of the Kagame military regime. Instead of celebrating, we should be asking: who are the real victims and who are the real criminals, and what really happened in Rwanda?

If there is any truth at all to the clichéd Holocaust slogan "never again" it is that now
never again can the U.S. officials in power at the time -- William
Jefferson Clinton (President) or Warren Christopher (Secretary of State)
or Madeleine Albright (Ambassador to the United Nations) or William
Perry (Secretary of Defense) or R. James Woolsey (CIA Director) or
Anthony Lake (National Security Adviser) -- claim that they didn't know
what was happening on the
ground in Rwanda. They did. They always did. They knew at the time
and they have known since.

In his opening statements in a Concord, New Hampshire

(USA) courthouse on February 23, 2012, federal prosecutor John Capin launched the U.S. government's trial against a 41 year-old Rwandan so-called 'genocide fugitive' by wielding satellite photographs purportedly showing the road blocks where she "commanded extremist Hutu
militia and ordered the rapes and killings of Tutsi" in Rwanda in 1994.

In a remarkable development, this is the first time in the history of the 'Rwanda genocide' trials or related Rwanda asylum hearings where Pentagon satellite photographs have been produced as evidence, and the first time that the existence of satellite photographs taken over Rwanda during the so-called '100 days of genocide' has ever been verified.

Later in the Munyenyezi trial the U.S. prosecutors produced a 'Pentagon analyst' who testified about the satellite photographs. The Pentagon analyst was Mr. Eric R. Benn, Technical Executive, Analysis and Production Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The photographs introduced into the public record include very high resolution images shot over Rwanda in May, June and July of 1994. The NGA is one of the most secretive organizations on earth and its customers include the Pentagon and all 16 shadowy agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).

The confirmation of satellite reconnaissance and intelligence photographs newly implicates the U.S. government in the mass atrocities of 1994, and raises serious new questions about the coverup of the double presidential assassinations of April 6, 1994 and the atrocities committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) commanded by now President Paul Kagame.

The sudden and unexpected revelation of the existence of satellite imagery shot over Rwanda in 1994 also further corroborates claims and evidence that U.S. and Pentagon officials had plenty of satellite evidence of the numbers and whereabouts of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees massacred by the Kagame war machine in Congo's forests.

Eighteen years after the so-called '1994 Rwanda genocide', Rwanda is today everywhere peddled as an economic miracle of recovery and freedom, once again 'the Switzerland of Africa.' Rwanda is also peddled as the model homeland for the 'stateless' Tutsis -- the so-called 'Jews of Africa' -- who exercise victim's license and a false moral righteousness to justify the commission of atrocities anywhere, anytime, and against anyone. All thanks to His Supreme Majesty President Paul Kagame, who is everywhere applauded for rescuing the Tutsis, stopping the genocide, and rebuilding Rwanda in His own image.

Meanwhile, the real situation for ordinary people in Central Africa is everywhere inhumane and unjust. The average Ugandan citizen suffers under the brutal dictatorship of Yoweri Museveni. The people in northern Uganda, already subject to genocide as policy under the Museveni government, now have a new threat: the hysterical KONY2012 movement.

The people of Congo continue to suffer under the terrorist government of Hyppolite Kanambe (alias Joseph Kabila), a Tutsi and the nephew of Rwandan Tutsi general James Kabarebe. Since January 2012 more than 100,000 Congolese have been internally displaced by violence under the occupation of the Kagame regime in the Kivu provinces.

And, as it as been since 1994, both Hutus and Tutsis suffer massive repression under the Kagame regime inside Rwanda.

MILLION DOLLAR MUNYENYEZI TRIAL

On June 24, 2010, Beatrice Munyenyezi (MOON'-yen-yezi) was
arrested in Manchester, New Hampshire (USA) and charged, according to U.S.
prosecutors, with "procuring U.S. citizenship unlawfully by misrepresenting her
activities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide."

The U.S. Department of Justice seeks to deport Beatrice
Munyenyezi to face genocide charges in Rwanda. But Ms.
Munyenyezi's will be a milestone case: this is the first ever international legal proceeding in the
United States involving a woman accused of rape as a genocide and war crime.

According to the government of Rwanda, Beatrice Munyenyezi,
41, allegedly "participated in, committed, ordered, oversaw, conspired to,
aided and abetted, assisted in and directed persecution, kidnapping, rape and
murder during the Rwandan genocide of 1994."

The Kagame regime makes general accusations that you can arrest and charge any Hutu with. These are generic genocide charges used by the Rwandan
military regime against all people of the Hutu ethnicity.

The fifteen-day trial of Beatrice
Munyenyezi in February and March 2012 was concluded with four additional days of deliberations by
an all-white jury. On March 15 the jury delivered a deadlocked decision
and the U.S. government declared a 'mistrial'. The re-trial is set to begin September 10, 2012.

Mark Howard, one of Beatrice Munyenyezi's attorneys,
revealed to the press the huge sums of money spent by the U.S
Judiciary to try Rwandan genocide suspects.

Howard estimated
that U.S. taxpayers paid between US$ 2.5 million and $US 3 million for Munyenyezi's recent prosecution and trial in federal
court. Howard estimates that a retrial is likely to cost an additional US$ 1 million.

Howard's estimates include attorney fees, agent salaries, the
"extraordinary expense" of investigating in a foreign country, the costs of bringing some fifteen
witnesses to New Hampshire, and the hiring of experts.

Several of the prosecution
witnesses brought over from Rwanda in the latest charade staged by the
Kagame military regime are described by the U.S. and Rwanda government
as convicted "extremist Hutu genocidaires" serving life sentences in prison.

Others are witnesses from a women's genocide survivor organization in Butare, paid by the U.S. government to travel to New Hampshire, whose profits from the traveling and testifying can be used to support their mission in Butare. Such economic interests play a major role in the official choice and production of 'genocide witnesses' and 'genocide survivors'.

Defense
attorneys described the fifteen Rwandan witnesses flown over to the U.S. from
Rwanda as "psychopathic killers who never mentioned Munyenyezi in nearly
two decades of trials and investigations into the Rwanda genocide."

The
cost of bringing Kagame's authorized 'witnesses' to the United States and putting
them up -- some under tight security and others at expensive hotels -- for the duration of the trial represents
additional massive costs to U.S. taxpayers for what amounts to fraud by
the U.S. government.

The credibility of 'witnesses' incarcerated
in Rwanda is highly suspect. First there is the problem of coercion:
many people in prison in Rwanda or accused by the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) and Gacaca
[people's] courts have been framed. Other 'confessed genocidaires' have
been tortured, and some have been silenced or coerced to lie by the RPA threat of retaliation against their
families.

Often enough, 'witnesses to killings' and 'genocide survivors' are frauds, sometimes they are people who were not even in Rwanda during the 1994 cataclysm. Other government plants and handlers have been coached.

The prosecutors in the Munyenyezi case are claiming that Beatrice
Munyenyezi was present and directed killings and kidnappings at a road
block just outside the Hotel Ihuriro in Butare. The RPA/F apparently
captured Butare through an offensive launched from Burundi. Satellite
images produced during the trial included images from around May 23, and
a series from May 28 to June 1. At this time the Hotel Ihuriro was
intact, but in a later image dated 18 July 1994 the hotel had been
leveled to the ground by the RPA/F attack and the photo is marked "destroyed building".

The satellite pictures are taken over a
time period and show clear changes from day to day. The implications of these photos are incredibly important. This is definitive proof that the United States knew exactly what was happening all over Rwanda during most if not all of the so-called Rwanda genocide, and the extended war from 1990 to 1994. The high-resolution files enable you to zoom in on details.

"They first showed
the hotel, which doesn't exist any more," said one source who was present at the trial. "They tried to show that
somehow there was a roadblock that [Beatrice Munyenyezi] was at. The
pictures were also supposed to show a mass grave a few feet from the
hotel and another mass grave near the Episcopal church nearby. The
defense attorneys were [apparently] able to prove that there was no road
block shown in the pictures, and there were no mass graves."

In Munyenyezi's case, the press apparently decided that the witnesses brought in to accuse Beatrice Munyenyezi were not credible.

First, the claim by the RPA that Munyenyezi commanded soldiers to rape Tutsi women in the basement of the hotel is presented as an absolute. The rape occurred 'in the context of genocide' and so it is believable and believed. However, no Rwandan woman in the context of Rwandan culture would ever oversee mass rape of other Rwandan women. In fact, Beatrice Munyenyezi was also pregnant at the time -- making the hypothesis of rape even less plausible.

Second, we can imagine that any credible testimony on a genocide rape charge against a woman would have provoked an endless barrage of news stories titled 'Hutu genocidaire woman ordered rape of innocent Tutsis in hotel's basement', stories that would have made their way right up to CNN and the New York Times. But the court's decision on the rape charges went unmentioned by the New Hampshire press because the credibility of dishonest government witnesses (coached to lie) was easily destroyed.

The charge that Beatrice Munyenyezi commanded and organized the rape of Rwandan women is as implausible as the charge by Invisible Children founder Jason Russel that Joseph Kony "he's the most perverse, in the world, he's just the most perverse. No one makes...anyone else... takes children... makes them kill their parents and eat their parents."

Some so-called 'genocidaires' may be guilty, but others are
not, and the Kagame regime uses all kinds of bribery, subterfuge and
threats to pull the wool over the eyes of tourists, researchers and
other 'guests'. Many people in Rwanda are forced to spy, tattle and inform on others or else face personal persecution or threats to their families.

Anyone who challenges the officially sanctioned narrative in Rwanda is branded,
arrested, exiled, disappeared or -- in the case of pesky American academics, like
Dr. Christian Davenport, Dr. Alan Stam or Dr. Susan Thomson, who all asked too many questions of the 'wrong' kind -- barred
from Rwanda forever.

Dr. Timothy Longman is another academic who has fallen into disrepute with the Kagame regime, though only mildly. Longman, now director of African Studies at Boston University,
is the Rwanda genocide expert that was brought in to testify as a witness for the prosecution in the Beatrice Munyenyezi case. Dr. Longman and former Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Alison Des Forges (d. 2009) co-authored the HRW book on Rwanda Leave None to Tell the Story,
and both formerly worked with USAID, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon;
the 790 page tome did not mention a word about Beatrice Munyenyezi.

Beatrice Munyenyezi's defense attorneys took advantage of the prosecution's Rwanda genocide expert and successfully cross-examined Dr. Timothy Longman making important points. Dr.
Longman, Dr. Susan Thomson and other academics came under fire from the
Kagame regime just prior to the April 2011 publication of the book Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence. Someone enamored with the Kagame regime put up a web site spreading disinformation and attacking the authors of the edited edition.

"The book is a collection of articles by a group of people who have made it their mission to shoot down anything that the government of Rwanda does," the propagandist begins. "The new book should be seen as the latest project of an association of what may be appropriately called 'Genocide Deniers Inc.' and 'Hate Rwanda Ltd'. The editors have brought together the works of a wide array of members of these two groups."

The lists of 'friends' and 'enemies' of the government of Rwanda is constantly in flux, but ever growing. First, France was the hostile enemy of Kagame, after the publication of the report on the shooting down of the presidential plane produced by French anti-terrorist Judge Louis Brugiere. Then when business and profits took precedents over truth and human rights, President Nicholas Sarkozy made a deal with Kagame and the French government soon after this became more hostile to Madame Agatha Habyriamana and more accommodating to Paul Kagame. But the recent volume of supposed 'Genocide Deniers Inc.' includes articles by some very accomplished and highly respected Rwanda scholars, including professors David Newbury, Catherine Newbury, and Dr. Scott Strauss. None of these accomplished academics have ever previously fallen anywhere near the category 'genocide deniers'.

Hordes
of western NGO workers and humanitarian relief workers involved in millions of
dollars of private profit come and go from Rwanda, always
advertising their effectiveness in "peace" and "reconciliation"
programs. And yet, Tutsis and Hutus alike inside and
outside Rwanda are increasingly speaking about military confrontation
as more and more people become alienated and disaffected by the elite
Tutsis in the Kagame regime.

CLASSIFIED
INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS

The U.S. National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO) certainly collected satellite imagery over the four years of
warfare in Rwanda.One of the 16 U.S.
intelligence agencies, the NRO designs, builds and operates U.S. government spy
satellites and coordinates the analysis of aerial surveillance and satellite
imagery from several intelligence and military agencies, including the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). All NRO operations are highly
classified - black programs operations -- and even the existence of the NRO was
only declassified in 1992.

According to the U.S. Government, "The
NRO was declassified to facilitate interaction with other parts of the
government, to make it easier for the NRO to support military operations, and
in response to Congressional pressure." However, the declassification of beyond top secret intelligence entities like the NRO represents a growing trend toward privatization of the defense and intelligence sectors.

As part of the process of declassification
the NRO consultant Richard Curl, head of the Office of Intelligence Resources of the
State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, recommended a "low-key
approach" to declassification.

This is a tactic that the intelligence and defense sectors
use often: casually bring the formerly beyond top secret 'asset' - some
previously classified plane, satellite or document -- into the public sphere
without any mention.Then, after the
unusual and unknown 'asset' is finally noticed, acknowledge the 'asset' with a
summary dismissal saying, "that has been there all along" -- and "it has been public knowledge for some time." The implication is: "you just weren't paying attention."

A declassified secret intelligence memo of July 1992 shows
that NRO consultant Richard Curl recommended that the U.S. government and
Pentagon very quietly make public the 'fact of' the NRO.Specifically, Curl advised "not worrying
public relations guidance too much, not making a big public announcement, and
just letting the change pass with little notice... keep down the fanfare and just
let the change happen."

In fact, perhaps thinking that the Beatrice Munyenyezi story
would remain a quiet and local New Hampshire affair, this is exactly how the
Pentagon made public the 'fact of' the 1994 Rwanda genocide satellite
reconnaissance images used in Beatrice Munyenyezi's trial.Never previously acknowledged, the existence of SATCOM photos was denied
to U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Robert Flaten during his ambassadorship from December 17, 1990 to November 23, 1993. Never formally or officially or unofficially revealed, the
images were casually introduced in the Munyenyezi trial.The local media missed the significance,
focusing only on the incredible charges of Munyenyezi's involvement in genocide.INTERNATIONAL WARS OF AGGRESSION

In 1981, Yoweri Museveni and his newly formed National Resistance Army (NRA) launched an invasion of the sovereign country of Uganda. From 1980 to 1986, the NRA perpetrated massive war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the Luwero Triangle and other areas in central and northern Uganda. These atrocities were universally attributed -- and are so attributed to this day -- to the government forces, the Uganda National Liberation Army, commanded by then President Milton Obote. (See for example: Notes On the Concealment of Genocide in Uganda, A. Milton Obote, April 1990.)

The massive atrocities committed by the NRA set the stage for the rise of Joseph Kony, the Ugandan bogey man used by Museveni, Washington, London and Israel to facilitate a permanent state of insecurity in northern Uganda. Under permanent emergency, Museveni was able to justify the forcible displacement of millions of indigenous Acholi people and their internment into concentration camps. Museveni also allegedly authored a document attesting to genocidal intent against the Acholis.

One of the 27 guerrillas who took up arms alongside Yoweri Museveni in the illegal NRA invasion of Uganda was Paul Kagame, the future leader of the Rwanda Patriotic Army/Front, the Ugandan guerrilla army that illegally invaded Rwanda on October 1, 1990. The claim that Museveni began the NRA with 27 guerrillas -- a somewhat romanticized or heroicized account -- is also disputed: others say that there were hundreds of soldiers, at least, who began fighting at the start.

Loyal to Museveni and his bloody guerrilla tactics, Kagame rose through
the ranks to become Museveni's director of military intelligence -- a
position for which his enemies now claim he was known as 'the
butcher'.

Also at Museveni's side throughout the NRA war was Rwandan tutsi elite Fred Rwigema, later appointed by Museveni to the highest military post in the new Ugandan military, Major General. Rwigema died in the first days of the October 1990 invasion against Rwanda due to infighting between Rwandan Patriotic Army factions.

At the time of the October 1990 invasion of Rwanda, Paul Kagame was being trained at the Pentagon's General Staff and Command College at Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas (USA). Kagame returned and led the four year war that resulted in the deaths of perhaps several hundred thousand Hutu people between October 1990 and April 1994 alone.

A prima facie case can be made that each of the invasions of Uganda, Rwanda
and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) constitute the supreme crime against humanity, that being an invasion and illegal war of
aggression
against a sovereign nation. The United States, Britain and Israel were the strongest backers behind backed
Museveni and Kagame in all three of these illegal wars of aggression.Involved at the highest level in the RPA/F invasion of Rwanda from 1990 to 1994 were United States intelligence agent Roger Winter and Israeli MOSSAD agent David Kimche.
U.S. defense attaché Lt. Colonel Thomas P. Odom and defense attachéRichard Skow are two more U.S. military intelligence agents who
have deep inside knowledge of the Pentagon- and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-backed invasions of both Rwanda
and Congo-Zaire, and both are culpable in the massive atrocities.

After the RPA/F victory, Roger Winter encamped in Kampala, Uganda, from where he directed the U.S./Nato/Israeli covert operations against the Islamic government of Sudan: his primary mouthpiece in the English-language world -- always hysterically screaming about genocide, inflating casualties and inventing facts, and published anywhere and everywhere -- is Smith College professor Dr. Eric Reeves.

In May 2001, U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) convened a hearing for the Subcommittee on Africa where investigative journalist Wayne Madsen testified about U.S. covert operations and U.S. involvement in genocide in Central Africa.

"A French military
intelligence officer said he detected some 100 armed U.S. troops in the
eastern Zaire conflict zone," Madsen's statement began. "Moreover, the DGSE [French secret service] reported the
Americans had knowledge of the extermination of Hutu refugees by Tutsis
in both Rwanda and eastern Zaire and were doing nothing about it. More
ominously, there was reason to believe that some U.S. forces, either
Special Forces or mercenaries, may have actually participated in the
extermination of Hutu refugees." (See: Statement by Wayne Madsen, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, 17 May 2001, and Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999, Wayne Madsen, Mellen Press, 1999.)

THE 'OFFICIAL' RWANDA GENOCIDE NARRATIVE

Just as Yoweri Museveni and his backers conferred victor status on
Museveni after the NRA victory in Uganda, and then charged the NRA's victims and the Obote government
with genocide, so too did Museveni and Paul Kagame and their backers
confer savior status on Paul Kagame and accuse the Hutu victims of
genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

The multiparty coalition government of Juvenal Habyarimana was
falsely accused of genocide as early as 1993. This was after a sham international "Commission of Inquiry" investigation led by Alison Des Forges (HRW), William Schabas and others who traveled to Rwanda and produced a one-sided report blaming the Habyarimana government [1]. The investigators spent about a week in Rwanda all told; they had RPA/F support; and they never investigated RPA/F atrocities in RPA/F controlled zones. Branded with 'genocide', the label stuck to Habyarimana, and the genocide charge was then repeated over and over until it was considered fact.

Contrary to the
official narrative that casts Hutus as killers and Tutsis as victims,
the RPA/F plan included the sacrificing of hundreds of thousands of
Tutsis. Given opportunities to negotiate a ceasefire, and even the unconditional surrender by the national armed forces -- Forces Armées Rwandaises (FAR) -- soon after the plane was shot down on 6 April 1994, the RPA/F continued the war to achieve absolute military dominance and to eliminate as many 'enemies' as possible. To Kagame and his elite thugs, the 'enemies' were Hutu and Tutsi people who lived in Rwanda. The plan succeeded and the land and property of millions of people was taken over by invading Tutsis and western multinational corporations.

The RPA/F leadership was comprised of elite English-speaking Tutsis from
Uganda backed by Ugandan generals James Kazini and Salim Saleh, and by Yoweri Museveni himself. As the RPA/F invasion continued -- prior to April 6, 1994 -- Tutsis were also killed,
both in revenge killings and because of RPA/F attacks. After April 6, 1994, both Hutus and Tutsis suffered at the hands of the Kagame regime. The minority Twa population also suffered massive loss of life in what should also be recognized as genocide, were the term reasonably applied.

"The continuation of the genocide of the Tutsis was a key part of the [RPA] victory strategy," writes former Rwandan Patriotic Front official Jean-Marie Ndagijimana, in How General Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsis. "[A] ceasefire and a halt to the genocide risked strengthening his adversaries [Forces Armées Rwandaises] by freeing them from their police duties. Furthermore, a halt to the massacres would have taken from Kagame the sole pretext on which he based his legitimacy. The government [FAR] army had to be made to appear like a genocidal force the defeat of which no one would regret... Why stop the massacres when they were working to legitimize Kagame and weaken his adversaries?"

Here is how the typical U.S. news agency reporting on the Munyenyezi story describes the Rwanda genocide. "The genocide in Rwanda began in April 1994," reads the commentator, in an ominous tone, in a local New Hampshire TV station video clip. "It lasted 100 days. Up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militias and as many as 10,000 people were killed each day. The Hutu were defeated three months later."

However, the genocide against Tutsis during those 100 days of 1994
cannot be understood out of context, and the true context is never
provided by the establishment media, by the U.S. or British governments, by Israel, or
by the mercenaries working to clean the blood off the Kagame regime.

Former British prime Minister Tony Blair, Canadian academic Gerald Caplan, New Yorker magazine writer Philip Gourevitch, 'human rights' investigator William Schabas, U.S. intelligence agent John Prendergast, British mouthpiece Linda Melvern, the RPA/F's Somalian mouthpiece Rakiya Omaar, and their Rwandan mouthpiece Tom Ndahiro are some of the most prominent individuals who have whitewashed the Kagame regime. Of course, there is a long list of Clinton and Bush officials who have lied again and again about our involvement in terrorism in the Great Lakes.

Kagame has also hired the Racepoint Group, a U.S. lobbying and public
relations firm to "build a strong and sustained image campaign
communicating the successes of Rwanda with key stakeholders in the
political and financial elite communities" and "[o]ffset the negative and
factually incorrect information of those parties with vested interests
in mis-portraying Rwanda's advancements."

Racepoint's campaign themes include
"Rwanda's Visionary Leader...highlighting President Kagame" and "The
Rwandan Miracle: Healing of a Nation." The company's fees are listed as
US$ 50,000 per month plus 2500 to 3500 pounds Sterling per month for
"out of pocket expenses."

DEEPER HISTORICAL REALITIES

When he came to
power in 1973, Rwanda's Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana warned Colonel
Joseph Mobutu, the western-imposed president in Zaire (now Dem. Rep. of Congo), that Tutsis settling
and seeking citizenship in Zaire were slowly infiltrating with the intent
to annex the mineral rich eastern provinces; this is one reason Mobutu promoted
isolationism in the far eastern provinces on the frontiers with Burundi, Rwanda
and Uganda.Meanwhile, Rwandan Tutsis continued to infiltrate eastern Congo,
pressing for land and citizenship, and giving rise to what has become known as
the Congolese Banyamulenge--"the people of Mulenge". The
"Banyamulenge problem" is another mythology created to support Tutsi
expansionism to annex Congolese territory. There is no such area or territory
in the Congo: both Hutus and Tutsis have become refugees in Congo-Zaire off and
on, but they have never been concentrated in one specific area. They have lived
all over the country, moving about and, sometimes, living and working as if
they were Congolese.

Throughout the
1960's and 1970's, the elite Tutsis who fled Rwanda during the independence struggle
(1958-1962) led guerrilla attacks from neighboring countries against the new
Hutu-led governments (Gregoire Kayibanda, Juvenal Habyarimana) in Rwanda. In response, and never forgetting centuries of the
Tutsi monarchies and conquest, Hutus retaliated against Tutsis inside Rwanda,
driving more refugees from the country. As Black Nationalism gained power in
Africa the Belgians supported majority Hutu rule in Rwanda, at the expense of
their former allies in oppression, the elite upper class Tutsis.

Thus did the elite
Tutsis who fled Rwanda find sympathy with other peoples involved in the
international struggle against imperialism in the 1960s and 1970s. The 'Third
World' non-aligned movement (outside the Nato versus Soviet arena) welcomed the
elite Tutsis in the diaspora, their brothers and sisters in the struggle for
freedom and rights, because the Tutsi elites proclaimed themselves the victims of
post-independence oppression by the colonial Belgian masters.

Members of the non-aligned movement funded
and armed the Tutsis guerrillas that attacked the Belgian-backed Hutus from outside
Rwanda. With every Tutsis guerrilla attack against the Hutu power structure
came more genocidal pograms against Tutsi people inside Rwanda.

On July 5, 1973, while serving as Army Chief of
Staff, Juvenal Habyarimana seized power by overthrowing Hutu leader Grégoire
Kayibanda, the first elected and second president of Rwanda (Hutu Dominique Mbonyumutwa was the first president of a ten-month
transition in 1961).

During the Soviet era, and pre-1989, the elite benefactors of the international
financial and political system were only too happy to turn a blind eye to the
human rights record of Juvenal Habyarimana -- and his friend, Mobutu, the CIA's
big man in Zaire -- in exchange for their military, economic and political
allegiance against the so-called "Communist bloc". With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
international monetary system put the screws on the Habyarimana (and Mobutu) government, ramming neoliberal 'reforms' down the throats of the Rwandans.The International Monetary Fund and World Bank enforced 'Structural Adjustment' programs that severely degraded the lives of ordinary Rwandans. On top of this, coffee prices fell. By the time of the Ugandan and RPA/F invasion of October 1990, the stage was set in Rwanda for class warfare.

While advancing and
creating a stable country in many ways, with some Tutsi power sharing, Habyarimana's
exclusionary policies against Tutsis also led to widespread Tutsi disaffection
inside Rwanda. Habyarimana refused to address the "refugee" question and
"rights to return" of Tutsis, a thorny issue pressed upon Rwanda by the
international community. When thousands of Tutsis expelled by the government
forces of Milton Obote fled Uganda in the early 1980's, Habyarimana refused to
allow them to stay in Rwanda. Later, both Habyarimana and Yoweri Museveni jockeyed
for power and profit where the pawns in the game were the Tutsis who had lived in Uganda for decades. Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of
French-speaking ethnic Tutsis had stayed and prospered inside Rwanda since
1959.

When the Rwandan
Patriotic Army -- elite Tutsi guerrillas led by Paul Kagame -- invaded Rwanda from
Uganda in 1990, the situation shifted rapidly. Over the next four years the
ethnic labels of Hutu and Tutsi became more politicized and more fluid.
Hundreds of thousands of French-speaking ethnic Tutsi who had stayed and
prospered inside Rwanda from 1959 until 1990 were now confronted with the
choice of supporting the invading Tutsi army or retaining allegiance to the Habyarimana
government. Complicated economic and political considerations, such as
long-standing business relationships, and class issues, belied the Hutu-Tutsi divide.

Major Paul
Kagame and his Ugandan Tutsi commanders, and other (very influential) elite
Tutsis in the diaspora, who were mostly English language speakers, considered
French-speaking Tutsis who stayed behind in Rwanda traitors to the Tutsi cause.
While the RPA propagandized the masses and recruited Tutsi males for RPA military
service from inside Rwanda, recruits were also subject to an internal RPA terrorism -- another
story that has never been told -- and many Tutsis who joined the RPA/F were marginalized, many mistreated, and many were shot or disappeared.

SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

On June 22, 2010 a Search and Seizure Warrant was approved by the U.S. District Court
in New Hampshire for the purpose of invading the Manchester N.H. home of Beatrice Munyenyezi. This warrant offers a perfect example of how the official narrative about genocide in Rwanda is maliciously used against innocent people.

The warrant is based on the affidavit of Thomas Brian Andersen, Jr., an ICE Special Agent assigned to the National Security Group of the Boston Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In his affidavit, Andersen distilled the
Hutu/Tutsi conflict in Rwanda down to a few essential details that helped to frame Beatrice Munyenyezi as a genocidaire.

The affidavit is extremely biased, and it offers a portrait of western arrogance and ignorance. For example: "Just prior to Rwanda's independence from Belgium in 1962," wrote Thomas
Brian Andersen Jr., summarily dismissing the entire history of the
elite Tutsi monarchy's brutal oppression and domination over the peasant Hutu masses, "the Hutu
majority gained control of the government, and after independence, the
Hutu majority engaged in acts, including discrimination and acts of
violence against Tutsis. As a result, numerous Tutsis fled Rwanda, and some formed a rebel guerrilla army, known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front ('RPF')."

For Thomas Brian Andersen, Jr, it is not even incidental that the elite Tutsi rebels were attacking Rwanda, sneaking into Rwanda under cover of darkness, committing massive atrocities, targeted assassinations, bombings, spreading wholesale terrorism, and then sneaking back out of the country from, say, 1959 to 1974. This is where the Kinyarwanda term 'Inyenzi' came from: this is the infamous cockroach slur used in all Hollywood movies to portray the Hutus as the blood thirsty killers set on exterminating the Tutsi cockroaches. The Inyenzi slur, when attributed to the Hutus, implicated their dehumanization of the Tutsis, and dehumanization is part of the ideology that underpins genocide (according to its unbastardized original etymology). But Inyenzi was a term the Tutsi guerrillas proudly assigned to themselves: they were proud of their capacity to come and go under cover of night, just like cockroaches, only in this case spreading terrorism and committing murder.

When ICE Special Agent Thomas Brian Andersen, Jr. invaded the Munyenyezi home, he and the other officers were even searching for 'weapons used by Munyenyezi'. Special Agent Thomas Brian Andersen, Jr. had been deeply conditioned to believe the official narrative. That is, Thomas Brian Andersen, Jr. was expecting he might even find a machete: ICE agents asked the children of Beatrice Munyenyezi if there were machetes in the house or the garage.

The affidavit assumes and asserts Beatrice Munyenyezi's guilt, and the Search and Seizure Warrant was approved by Judge Daniel J. Lynch. It is an example of insufferable arrogance and entitlement, and of the abuse of power.

THE PENTAGON SACRIFICES MILLIONS OF AFRICANS

The double presidential assassination of April 6, 1994 is defined as the
trigger for the massive backlash of Tutsi killings by Hutu people. Since the war began in October 1990, more than 10 million people have died in Central Africa due to Pentagon backed insurgency, with the greatest numbers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An elderly Congolese man sits in utter despair in a dilapidated section of Kisangani, DRC, unsure how he will survive and take care of his family. c. keith harmon snow, 2004.

Jean-Marie Ndagijimana was the Rwandan Ambassador to Paris under the Habyarimana government from October
1990 to April 1994, before being removed from his post for speaking out
against the mass killings of Tutsis and Hutus.

On 19 July 1994, Ndagajimana
became Minister of Foreign Affairs in what was called
the 'Broad-Based National Unity Government' led by Faustin
Twagiramungu. In September 1994, he resigned and went into exile after the report by UNHCR investigator Robert Gersony confirmed that scores of thousands of Hutus were killed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army between July and September 1994.

Robert Gersony was the UNHCR contractor whose report on RPA killings of Hutus was massively denounced at the time and later buried by the United Nations never to be seen again. Gersony went on to work for the UNHCR in northern Uganda and other places. Clearly, Gersony's credentials stood the test, and his silence secured his future employment(s). Indeed, Robert Gersony went on to work for the USAID mission to Kampala, Uganda, where he produced a report detailing the persecution of Acholi people in Northern Uganda. (See, e.g.: The Anguish of Northern Uganda: Results of a Field-Based Assessment of the Civil Conflicts in Northern Uganda, Robert Gersony, USAID Mission to Kampala, 1997).

Jean-Marie Ndagajimana insists that the killings of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis between April 6 and July 1994 was organized, not spontaneous, but that there is no question that there was a double genocide. He claims Tutsis were systematically killed by militias in areas controlled by the interim government of Jean Kambanda between April 8, 1994 and July 15, 1994, and that the RPA/F systematically killed Hutus in zones under its control both before and after 1994.

Based on research for which they were eventually thrown out of Rwanda, U.S. academics Christian Davenport and Alan Stam insist that the numbers of Tutsis killed in Rwanda during the so-called 100 days could not have been as high as the official narrative claims, and that hundreds of thousands of Hutus were killed during the so-called '100 days of genocide of 1994' period and that these comprise the difference between the official count of 800,000 to 1.2 million Tutsis and the actual count of (hundreds of thousands less) Tutsis.

Defense attorneys from the ICTR are adamant that the record shows that there was no systematic planification of genocide by the government of Juvenal Habyarimana or its immediate successors, the interim coalition government of Jean Kambanda formed on April 7, 1994.

The official Rwanda genocide narrative is founded upon the false claim that the Habyarimana government was an extremist Hutu government -- which is what extremist purveyors of the official narrative such as Paul Kagame and his elite Tutsi collaborators would like people to believe.

From April 1992 to the middle of July 1993 there was a coalition government led by
Prime Minister Dr. Dismas Nsengiyaremye. Members of the coalition
represented a diverse political spectrum, including opposition party members from the Mouvement Démocratique Républicain (MDR), Parti Liberal (PL), Parti Social Démocrate (PSD) and Parti Démocratique Chrêtien (PDC). There were also members from Habyarimana's ruling party Mouvement Républicain National Pour la Démocratie et le Développement (MRND). Opposition
parties had ten ministers in addition to the Prime Minister and the MRND had
10 ministers in addition to President Habyarimana. The one prominent Tutsi in this
government was Landoald Ndasingwa from the Parti Liberal, but at least three of the opposition parties were pro-RPF.

From the middle of July 1993 to April 6, 1994, there was a coalition government
led by Prime Minister Madam Agathe Uwilingiyimana. The members of the
coalition government were from the MDR, PSD, PDC and MRND parties. The MDR party split into two factions after Agathe Uwilingiyimana was appointed Prime Minister by Juvenal Habyariama. PSD, PDC, PL split up later. Some factions were pro-RPF,
others were pro-MRND. The pro-MRND factions were later labeled 'Hutu
Power'. The label came from a speech made by Froduald Karamira, vice-president of the MDR during a public meeting called to condemn the
October 1993 assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye of Burundi, the first Hutu
elected president of Burundi. (From Karamira's perspective, power
belonged to the winners of elections.)

In other words there was no 'Hutu government of Juvenal Habyarimana'. President Habyarimana had been forced by the international
community to accept a coalition government, and if there were
any extremists in the government, these were the opposition supporters -- like Faustin Twagiramungu and Marianne Baziruwiha -- who sincerely believed
that the Rwandan Patriotic Army/Front was bringing equality and freedom to Rwanda, and that the RPA/F was
genuinely interested in good faith negotiations and peace.
Nothing could have been further from the truth.

Fautsin Twagiramungu became Prime Minister under the Kagame government in 1994 and 1995, at the time of massive atrocities against Hutus inside Rwanda. Marianne Baziruwiha took a position with the RPA/F government after July 1994, where she quickly saw that she was expected to lure Hutus (civilians) out of hiding so that the RPA/F could kill them: Baziruwiha witnessed this happening. Baziruwiha later worked at the Rwandan Embassy in Washington under RPA/F cadre Theogene Rudasingwa. In the end, Twagiramungu, Baziruwiha and Rudasingwa all fled for their lives and live in exile.

The question of Hutu 'extremists' and the labels like 'extremist Hutu' and 'moderate Hutu' and 'Hutu power' must be unpacked for clarity, and distanced from the reductionist or essentialist narrative where they are used to criminalize and dehumanize all Hutu people. These labels created by and to serve the official 'Hutus killing Tutsis' narrative also inspire the application of labels like 'extremist Tutsi' and 'moderate Tutsi', but the question of Tutsi extremists or Tutsi moderates is never raised, no matter the abject brutality and terrorism of the elite Tutsis of the Kagame inner circles and terror networks. The same is true of language like 'Akazu' or 'inner house' -- another label that was applied to the Habyarimana government and that has also been applied to Madame Agathe Habyarimana to further the nonsensical proposition that she assassinated her own husband. Such labels are quite reasonably applied to Paul Kagame and his Akazu of terrorists plundering the Congo (for example).

Other people who could arguably have been labeled as 'extremists' at the time would be Belgian academic Philippe Reyntjens, an ardent RPA/F supporter and Habyarimana critic throughout the four year civil war, and up to about 1995 or 1996, where he began to sing a different tune (much to his credit). Dr. Reyntjens has done some fantastic scholarship on the Great Lakes region, and he is not to be confused with French academic Gerard Prunier, whose whitewashing of events and support of the RPA/F official narrative suggests he could easily be an intelligence asset working for the RPA/F or for the United States.

The ICTR acquitted the so-called 'genocide masterminds' of all conspiracy to commit genocide charges, but some were found guilty of 'acts of genocide' and other crimes against humanity. However, every ICTR trial should be declared a mistrial. These trials have been politically motivated, one-sided productions, and not one Rwandan Patriotic Army/Front official or soldier has even been indicted. Not one Tutsi has ever been charged. Controlled and manhandled by the United States, the ICTR is merely dispensing 'victor's justice'.

The ICTR conviction of Jean Kambanda, the former interim prime minister during the 1994 genocide, on the charge of conspiracy to commit genocide was a complete sham: even proponents of the official Rwanda genocide narrative have confirmed that Kambanda was not afforded proper legal representation or anything close to a fair trial. (See, e.g., The Sacrifice of Jean Kambanda: A Comparative Analysis of the Right to Counsel in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the United States, with emphasis on Prosecutor v. Jean Kambanda, Kelly Xi Huei Lalith Ranasing, California Western School of Law, Summer 2004.)

The ICTR trials have persecuted and further dehumanized Hutu people, and they have dismissed and ignored every chance to explore the role of Paul Kagame and the RPA/F in provoking, prolonging and supporting the Tutsi genocide during the 100 days of 1994. The ICTR has never explored or considered the obvious evidence of genocide against Hutu people.

Meanwhile, in 2008 the high court in Spain issued indictments and international arrest warrants against the top 40 Rwandan Patriotic Army/Front officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire). The court included Paul Kagame in its consideration of egregious crimes, but is prevented from indicting a sitting head of state.

Business is business: directors of Royal/Dutch Shell Corporation with President Paul Kagame in Kigali.(Note: The photo on the right to the right and behind shows former President Pasteur Bizimungu, first president under the RPA/F regime, July 19, 1994 to March 23, 2000.)

THE RPA GENOCIDE AGAINST THE HUTU PEOPLE

Beatrice Munyenyezi survived the invasion of Rwanda's Byumba prefecture by the Ugandan troops calling themselves the Rwanda Patriotic Army in 1990. From October 1990 to April 1994 the RPF occupied the large portions of the
prefectures of Byumba and Ruhengeri: American satellite pictures would
shed light on the destruction caused by the RPF offensive from 1990 to
the 1993 ceasefire.

"I spent 3 months in the demilitarized zone
resettling
internally displaced people," says another unnamed Rwandan genocide
survivor. "Based on what I saw, the RPF policy was to
kill people, destroy buildings, destroy houses, destroy archives," says
witness GOR-3 (not connected to the Munyenyezi trial). "Doors, iron
sheets and corrugated metal covering the roofs of houses, furniture,
toilets -- everything had been removed and
taken to Uganda to be sold. We need the pictures taken by the Pentagon
to show the brutality of the RPA invasion and occupation."

Beatrice Munyenyezi then survived the next four years of
RPA/F persecution and genocide that saw entire Hutu villages in Byumba razed,
massacres of scores of thousands of mostly (but not only) Hutu people, and the internal displacement of
some two million Hutus.

Forced into a life-and-death refugee
existence inside
Rwanda between October 1990 and April 1994, the displaced Hutu people
fought back after the plane carrying the Hutu presidents of both Rwanda
and Burundi, and other Rwandan high officials, was shot down over Kigali airport on April 6, 1994.

Beatrice Munyenyezi then survived the so-called '100 days of
genocide' in Rwanda from April 6 to July 15, 1994. She fled Rwanda with family
members on July 18, 1994, part of the massive exodus of millions of Rwandans,
mostly innocent Hutu women and children to eastern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).

In Congo-Zaire, Munyenyezi survived the most ruthless and cold-blooded slaughter
of hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians by the RPA, Ugandan People's Defense Forces and some lesser numbers of Ethiopian, Eritrean, and South African troops. U.S. troops were also involved in slaughtering Hutu refugees between 1994 and 1997. The RPA-led genocide against Hutus (and Congolese) in Congo-Zaire began in July 1994, but most of the evidence known to date attends to the massive invasion of August, September and October of 1996 when the RPA shelled refugee camps in the Kivu provinces in violation of international law.

In Goma, DRC, at this time, a western war correspondent photographed U.S. Special Forces machine-gunning unarmed refugee men, women and children in what he described as "one of the most horrible examples of mass atrocities I have ever seen."

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) had been stockpiling World Food Program provisions and for months these had been denied to starving Rwandan refugees. The massive WFP provisions meant for refugees -- mostly non-combatant Rwandan Hutu men, women and children -- were used to feed the invading RPA/F troops.

For the next year, UNHCR helped the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its backers -- Pentagon, U.S. State Department, USAID, DFID, Israel, Belgium -- to hunt down and forcibly repatriate Hutu refugees as they ran for their lives all across Congo. UNHCR even paid a bounty to local Congolese for refugees. In Congo-Brazzaville, Cameroon, and Gabon it was the same story: UNHCR hunted the refugees down, paid a bounty, coerced the local dictatorships (Omar Bongo in Gabon, Paul Biya in Cameron), and forcibly repatriated Rwandan refugees back to death camps, torture and mass graves in Rwanda.

Howard French of the New York Times made a few protestations to his editors in New York, but soon he left Central Africa to work as NYT
bureau chief in China. Howard French mumbles a few words about Rwanda
and Congo now and then, but he is an officially sanctioned voice who
maintains his highly paid job at the New York Times precisely
because he has said nothing at all of any real substance about U.S. and
British and Belgian and German and Canadian and Israeli agents
responsible for the Hutu genocide in Zaire.

Like almost everyone else, Howard French abandoned the Hutus to be slaughtered. As the truth about atrocities and complicity in mass murder increasingly comes to light, we find establishment insiders arguing with establishment insiders in well-to-do establishment journals that always remain silent when the carnage is happening, as in the case of the atrocities being committed in the Congo (Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda) at present.

UNHCR head Sagato Ogata even landed by plane near Tingi Tingi refugees camp in Zaire, when the RPA/F attack was imminent, and threatened refugees -- which by now included Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi, and internally displaced Congolese people -- that if they didn't return to Rwanda they would be killed. The RPA/F attacked, Ogata was off to some posh celebration in some fancy hotel. Tens of thousands of refugees were killed at Tingi Tingi and scores of thousands fled west into the forests to suffer and die.

"[French] Military officers and the [French] intelligence services were not satisfied with
the satellite images furnished by the Americans," writes investigative journalist Pierre Péan, "which showed no signs
of the refugees; these pictures did not correspond at all with the
information that was coming in to them off the ground from numerous
human sources. At the beginning of November, a Bréguet Atlantic
reconnaissance plane spotted groups of refugees and transmitted photos
of two US Blackhawk helicopters."

"French spies were questioned
about the role of the Green Berets in the massacres that took place
after the taking of Bukavu at the end of October 1996," Pierre Péan continues, in Carnages, his massive exposé on U.S., Nato and Israeli interventions and dirty tricks in Africa.

"They were also
asked about the origins of the nighttime aerial machine gun fire against
the refugee camps:

That poses some serious considerations
when you know that among the American aircraft used was at least one
C-130 gunship from the Special Forces, a veritable flying gunboat,
armor-plated and equipped with a 105 mm canon, rockets and machine guns,
capable even of dropping mines. What was it doing there if, as the
American Commander would have it, it was only searching out the refugees
to study ways to bring them aid?

After the refugee camps in eastern Zaire were attacked, Beatrice Munyenyezi fled from Congo to Kenya at the advice
of her brother, Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, another U.S. citizen also being
hunted by the Kagame regime and its political, military and economic partners.

In
Tanzania and Kenya, Beatrice Munyenyezi survived RPF agents hunting
refugees and
assassinating dissidents, including former RPF official Seth
Sendashonga, who was minister of the interior in Rwanda from 1994 to
1998.

Jean Marie Vianney Higiro is the real target of the Kagame regime's
persecution of Beatrice Munyenyezi: the regime has held a vendetta against Higiro
since his refusal to accept a post in the Kagame terrorist government
in July 1994. Higiro was evacuated from Rwanda by U.S. marines around
April 8, 1994.

The security apparatus of the Kagame regime has been hunting
refugees in Europe and in
North America since 1994, and Rwandan dissidents have been assassinated in
Europe and Africa. In May 2011, an assassination plot was
foiled in London by the U.K. government. Former Rwandan minister
Juvenal Uwilingiyimana and Colonel Laurent Nubaha 'mysteriously' turned up dead in
Belgium. Colonel Theoneste Lizinde and Seth Sendashonga, former RPF
interior minister, were both assassinated in Nairobi; Pasteur Musabe was assassinated
in Cameroon. There was also an attempt on the life of Rwanda's ex-army
chief, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. International arrest warrants against genocide
suspects and non-genocide suspects are also used as weapons to neutralize and
silence.The U.S. government, Canada,
Britain and Israel back the hunting down of Rwandan dissidents to prop up their
client regime: the dictatorship of Paul Kagame.

Rwanda provides a major base for the U.S. Department of Defense military
occupation of Africa and for U.S. and allied intelligence and defense
operations. While allied operations involve many NATO countries,
Britain and Israel are the main intelligence and defense partners for
the U.S. in Central Africa; Germany and Belgium are not far behind them.

There is no freedom of speech in
Rwanda today. There is no freedom of press. There is no freedom to
organize. There is no freedom of assembly. The Kagame regime
continues to assassinate and disappear critics, journalists, former
business associates, former military and former government officials.

On March 31, 2012, Kagame's former Chief of Staff Theogene Rudasingwa, a Tutsi in exile, announced that Paul Kagame was the instigator of the January 2001 assassination of Congolese President Laurent Desire Kabila. Theogene Rudasingwa is also the former RPA/F Secretary General and former ambassador to Washington under the Kagame regime.

The
most recent assassinations include several Rwandan journalists killed
in Uganda earlier this year. Opposition candidate Victoire Ingabire
remains imprisoned and subject to a political charade trial because she
returned to Rwanda from Belgium and courageously proclaimed the
heretical obvious: There was a genocide against Hutus as well as Tutsis.

In July 2010, the body of the deputy leader of the Democratic
Green Party was found
dumped by a river near the southern town of Butare. Opposition
politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, a Tutsi politician, was decapitated
for his opposition to the Kagame regime.

The RPA/F government routinely rounds up numerous supposed supporters
of opposition parties, and people have routinely been disappeared merely for
showing some allegiance to the opposition Green Party or the
PS-Imberakuri party.

"So many Tutsis are also suffering
political repression," says 'Ignace', a high level Rwandan dissident who fears
retaliation from the U.S. government for speaking out. "Tutsis who live in
Rwanda are silent because they fear repression. Tutsis who live abroad
in exile, like Theogene Rudasingwa and Gerald Gahima and General Kayumba
Nyamwasa are also living in fear of assassination."

Paul Kagame and former RPA General Kayumba Nyamwasa.

Hutus throughout the country are subject to slavery conditions and
millions of people -- Hutus, Tutsis, Twa -- outside the cliques of power are suffering extreme poverty. Most egregious, the RPA/F genocide against Hutu people continues: there is at present a campaign in Rwanda to forcibly sterilize Hutu males. At present the government claims this is 'voluntary' sterilization for population control, but the government is already pressing forced sterilization in certain cases and there is a history of deeply repressive and coercive policies that have been put into practice by force. According to an ICTR defense attorney interviewed in Arusha, the program is aimed at substantial reductions of the majority Hutu population.

"The RPF's reconstruction and reconciliation policies do not represent a sincere attempt to unify and reconcile Rwandans," writes Dr. Susan Thomson. "Instead, it is a mechanism of state power that presents a self-serving version of history and manipulates the language of ethnicity to justify and maintain policies of exclusion and oppression of ethnic Hutu in maintaining the appearance of peace and security... In practice, the government approaches post-genocide justice through the maximal prosecution of all Hutu."

A U.S. academic who worked in Rwanda and personally experienced the indoctrination camps run by the Kagame regime -- forced to attend one of these camps or be deported from Rwanda -- Dr. Susan Thomson is persona non grata in Rwanda today. (And so is this correspondent.)

THE RWANDA GENOCIDE TOURISM INDUSTRY

After the arrest of Beatrice Munyenyezi in 2010,
agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) traveled to Rwanda to gather
evidence to support the charges against her.

It is likely both U.S. prosecutors were flown over to Rwanda for some genocide tourism, at least once if not multiple times. Both defense attorneys traveled to RWanda twice. There were also two
investigative missions sent there for the Munyenyezi 'discovery'. Because Beatrice Munyenyezi was indigent, both
of her defense attorneys traveled to Rwanda all expenses paid by U.S. taxpayers; it is likely that the two
primary U.S. prosecutors also traveled there.

While prosecutors John Capin and
Aloke Chakravarthy may or may not have traveled to Rwanda,
independent investigations in Rwanda are impossible. The U.S. government
does not send unbiased investigators to Rwanda: it
sends agents intent on collecting the information and documentation
provided by their client regime to protect their client regime.

It is especially easy to manipulate tourists or students or researchers
who arrive in Rwanda for their first visit to Africa. White people are
taken to the genocide memorials and the shock of these staged-managed
productions -- all these Hutu and Tutsi skeletons piled up and labeled
'Tutsi victims of genocide' -- strikes deep into the psyche of the
spectator. People don't arrive with clean slates: the mass media has deeply conditioned western news and entertainment consumers to see Africa through a racist and exploitative lens.

The viewing of skeletons and skulls in Rwanda has become a lucrative spectator sport
and the conditioning by the white systems of power in western countries
has created naive and racially conditioned spectators who are easily fooled.
Once they have seen the 'horrors' of the genocide memorials the average white and even non-white
western spectators (e.g. African Americans) are often horrified into a subconscious shock and disbelief where reason and common sense are no longer accessible.

Foreigners take the skeletons and skulls as the unassailable truth -- it does not cross their minds that there might be some other interpretation of the art project they see before them. It
doesn't occur to people that the truth has been distilled down --
essentialized -- into piles of skeletons, or shoes, or scattered
clothing, or machetes that no longer appropriately re-present the original circumstances and context..

However, the fact is that virtually everyone in Rwanda owns a machete.
Ditto in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Uganda and rural Tanzania. They are as common a personal item as a wallet or purse or ball point pen is to a
westerner. The entire machete narrative -- Hutus butchering Tutsis in 100 days, blah, blah, blah -- is deeply problematic, since the RPA/F routinely killed people with machetes both to disguise (normalize) the means of death such that the perpetrators and the victims could not be distinguished and so that the RPA/F narrative of 'bloodthirsty Hutus killing Tutsis with machetes' could easily be advanced. The RPA/F also wanted to save on bullets.

There is a genocide economy in Rwanda that serves foreign visitors who spend millions of dollars annually to travel to Rwanda, stay in fancy hotels, eat at restaurants, visit the mountain gorillas in Rwanda's national parks, hire cars, and drivers, and interpreters, and purchase souvenirs -- or 'free trade' coffee produced on lands stolen from the Hutu masses. There is a whole industry that revolves around the production and maintenance of the official Rwanda genocide story about Hutus killing Tutsis in 100 days of horror.

The U.S. government pays all the travel and per diem expenses of genocide 'investigators', and everything is covered at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Rwandan 'victims' and 'survivors' who are brought to the United States are also fully paid.

"This is genocide tourism," says
'Ignace'. "They are not
investigative. They stay at fancy hotels, they visit some locations,
they see the skeletons and skulls at 'genocide memorials', they meet President
Kagame, and they are assigned government handlers who make sure they get
what Kagame and people in Washington want. They drink a lot of wine
and swim in the swimming pools. They don't know anything about Rwanda
and everything looks very romantic. Then they come back and accuse
innocent people of genocide."

PENTAGON SATELLITE PHOTOS EXPOSED

The existence of satellite reconnaissance photographs has not
been revealed even during the 18 years of very high profile genocide
trials held at the ICTR.

During his entire three-plus years in Rwanda from 1990 to November 1993, former U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Robert Flaten's requests for
Pentagon-DIA spy satellite photographs showing the progress of the war
in the Rwandan countryside were turned down -- because of "clouds over
Rwanda" they told him.

Scott Erlinder tracked down NASA Space Shuttle images shot over Rwanda in 1994. "...[this] shows there were, at least
sometimes, clear views of Rwanda in 1994," said Erlinder. "I
found this a year ago when I heard about the 'bad weather' that
[supposedly] precluded the State Dept from getting photos of Rwanda."

The photograph is described by NASA as a "C- and L-band image [that was] acquired on April 12, 1994, on orbit 58 of
space shuttle Endeavour by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar." The existence of these gorilla habitat photos in effect helps to mislead the general public by providing cover for the military (RPA/F support) and commercial (mining) objectives of the NASA shuttle missions over Rwanda. Imagine, if we were to foolishly believe the official narrative, 100 days of slaughter, beginning April 6, 1994, Hutus killing Tutis, and how the U.S. intelligence community 'didn't know' what was going on -- and here contradicting that we have the NASA space shuttle Endeavor snapping photos on April 12, 1994, as the cataclysm is unfolding.

In fact, in the 1960's the U.S. government delineated a policy that would be used to enable the release of highly classified information without acknowledging or revealing the source. "Department of Defense lawyers pointed out that deliberately making public even one space reconnaissance photograph," wrote William E. Burrows (in an article entitled "Imaging Space Reconnaissance Opprations during the Cold War: Cause, Effect and Legacy"), "would open a floodgate of requests for more material through the Freedom of Information Act, which became law in 1966. Answering such requests would in itself consume immense amounts of time and resources. As a result, scenes that were photographed by satellites and which the intelligence community wanted to make public -- showing Soviet activity in Nicaragua in 1982, for example -- would be rephotographed by aircraft before they were shown."

The production and public release of images shot during the so-called '100 days of genocide' over Rwanda by the NASA space shuttle -- a publicly known entity perceived to be involved in scientific research and not recognized as a super secretive defense asset -- certainly qualifies to mask the deep satellite intelligence operations of the Pentagon. The 1960's directive for handling classified intel fits the current story exactly: NRO and NGA images were never previously released, while fixed wing (space shuttle) images of 'gorilla habitat' were released. And, now that the existence of classified satellite imagery has been confirmed, ICTR defense attorneys and others will immediately petition for public release under Freedom of Information Act and other legal means.

In her pivotal propaganda piece, "Bystanders to Genocide" (Harpers, September 2001), Harvard University scholar and U.S. war crimes apologist Samantha Power claimed that the U.S. had the means to 'stop the genocide' but instead we stood by. These means, she correctly noted, would include satellite imagery. However, Power's role was to further whitewash U.S. involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, as her Pulitzer prize-winning book The Road to Hell: America in the Age of Genocide quite clearly demonstrates.

"Whatever the inevitable imperfections of U.S. intelligence early on, the reports from Rwanda were severe enough to distinguish Hutu killers from ordinary combatants in civil war," Samantha Power disingenuously wrote, in 'Bystanders to Genocide'. "And they certainly warranted directing additional U.S. intelligence assets toward the region -- to snap satellite photos of large gatherings of Rwandan civilians or of mass graves, to intercept military communications, or to infiltrate the country in person. Though there is no evidence that senior policymakers deployed such assets, routine intelligence continued to pour in."

Samantha Power's "Bystanders to Genocide" article appeared in Atlantic Monthly in September 2001. While it was a major piece of establishment disinformation, the story was immediately eclipsed by the 9/11 catastrophe. The article was intended to deceive, and that is why Samantha Power is a national security insider in the Obama administration, and why her subsequent book won a Pulitzer Prize.

The Atlantic Monthly, on the other hand, is a major establishment mouthpiece, always producing pseudo-exposés presented as highly revealing investigative journalism. Lockheed Martin is perhaps THE most significant 'black programs' contractor: the beyond top secret 'Skunk Works' builds and tests sophisticated satellite intelligence and reconnaissance satellites for the NRO. Lockheed Martin is a major advertiser with the Atlantic Monthly.

In a December 2001 letter to Harper's editors, U.S. academic Alan J. Kuperman disputed Samantha Power's claim that "the United States
failed to snap satellite photos of large gatherings of Rwandan civilians
or of mass graves" stating: "Actually, within three days of the outbreak of
violence on April 6, 1994, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency obtained
satellite photos, communications intercepts, and human intelligence
that confirmed a widespread, centrally controlled killing campaign. I
reported these facts, based on interviews with senior U.S. intelligence
officials, in my recent book, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001)."

However, in a 2000 edition of Foreign Affairs, Alan Kuperman argued that President Clinton "could not have known that a nationwide genocide was under way" until about two weeks into the killing. In any case, the existence of satellite photos has never received any substantive attention and they have never been revealed until now.

The authenticity of the satellite images produced in the Munyenyezi trial in New Hampshire has not been established. Question: If satellite images existed, say some critics, then why were they not produced in high-profile cases at the ICTR -- which is a show trial completely run by the United States? Answer:
The answer is because the images will probably reveal U.S.
military involvement, Nato involvement, RPA/F troop movements and bases, military
hardware and weaponry, UNAMIR actions, and other very revealing information. There is substantial reason to believe that the satellite photographs may be exactly what the Pentagon described them as.

If Washington had the capability to monitor events from a
satellite platform they certainly were doing so. And Washington had that
capacity indeed.When detailed reports of geographical areas,
military installations and activities, troop positions, or other picture-based
intelligence are required, the Defense establishment relies on data provided by
IMINT (Image Intelligence) satellites.Operating in low, near-polar orbits at an altitude of between 500 and
3,000 kilometers, and maintaining the same orbit around the Earth, they make
about 14 revolutions per day.

In 1994, the U.S. intelligence and defense establishment was
flying two older versions of the LANDSAT remote sensing satellite platforms in
outer orbit. LANDSAT-4 and LANDSAT-5 had both exceeded their design lifetimes
but were operational and had the capability to capture accurate and detailed
imagery of what was happening in Rwanda during the 100 days of genocide.

The U.S.
intelligence community was also flying at least three models of the 'Key Hole' reconnaissance
satellites launched after 1992: Kh-11, KH-12 and KH-13.The most advanced
of these satellites had a resolution of around 10-15 centimeters, but could not
see through clouds and did not have 'dwell capability' (the ability to maintain
orbit over a specific location). A
series of satellites that costs around $1.5 billion, Key Hole satellites enable the
identification of objects 6 to 8.5 inches across, although it is speculated
that the actual resolution may even be as good as 4 inches.

KH-11 satellites have
infrared imagery capability, including a thermal infrared imagery capability,
and thus allow imagery in darkness. Declassified KH-11 photographs that
have been actively used in war-fighting and interventions include photographs
of the Zhawar Kili Base Camp in Afghanistan, purported to house training
facilities for 'Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization'.KH-12's
have advanced infrared capability useful in detecting camouflage, looking at
buried structures.By looking at
temperature differences between objects, analysts can determine such things as
which factories are operational or whether tank engines have been running
recently.Its image resolution
approaches 10 centimeters.The KH-13 is an electro-optical/IR satellite
undetectable by radar or infrared sensors as a safeguard against the possible
use of anti-satellite weapons.

High resolution images photographed
over Rwanda could also have been captured using the Lockheed SR-71 'Blackbird', an advanced, long-range, Mach 3+
strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed as a black
project by the LockheedSkunk Works.The U.S. Air Force launched the black
operations SR-71 in 1964, and it was retired in the early 1990's when unmanned
aerospace vehicles became more prominent.However, the SR-71 was reactivated in 1993 after Lockheed Martin billed
U.S. taxpayers $US 72 million.

As we will see, there was also the NASA Space Shuttle.

While reputed to be photo-shopped photo, Congolese experts insist that this photo is authentic: Hyppolite Kanambe alias Joseph Kabila was a military officer attached to Paul Kagame during the 1996-1997 invasion and conquest of Congo-Zaire.

THE GREAT LAKES GENOCIDE COVER-UP

The existence of satellite images raises questions about what the Pentagon knows and what they are hiding. For example, satellite imagery would clearly show the wreckage of the presidential plane crash site, and photos would show who was in control of the crash site immediately after the April 6 assassinations, and who controlled the site over the next weeks and months. But they would also show military hardware being shipped in by the U.S., and U.S. military involvement.

"The U.S. was directly involved in the April-July 1994 events," says ICTR defense attorney Christopher Black. "U. N. investigator Michael Hourigan implicates the CIA in the attack on the plane. There is the presence of U.S. defense attaché Lt. Col. Charles Vuckovic in Kigali just days before the shoot down. After April 6th, the U.S. was supplying the RPF forces using C-130 Hercules aircraft. General Ndindiliyimana testified [at the ICTR] that the U.S. Air Force was airdropping men and weapons to the RPF and he was not challenged on this testimony. Also, the U.N. Rwanda Emergency Office was in reality completely staffed by U.S. army officers and acted as the operational headquarters for the RPF. Further, U.S. allies like Canada also assisted the RPF: General Romeo Dallaire was in breach of his required U.N. neutrality and Belgian forces also are deeply implicated."

The United States has blocked every bonafide investigation into
the double presidential assassinations since 1994. The Kagame regime has
produced several reports (e.g. Mucyo Report), but these self-interested productions are easily discredited.

Former RPA/F official Theogene Rudasingwa claims that Paul
Kagame and an elite RPA/F hit squad are behind the shooting down of the presidential plane, and thus the RPA/F sparked the
genocide of Tutsis, knowing Tutsis would be massacred everywhere, and these claims are backed up by other former RPA/F
soldiers.

Satellite imagery would also show the locations, strengths and activities of RPA/F troops, government (FAR) troops and militias. It is well known that the RPA/F infiltrated the Interahamwe militias, and therefore RPA/F are believed to have controlled some road blocks, and it is very curious that no satellite photos have previously been produced to show where road blocks and bridges were occupied, and who occupied them.

Probably this is because the RPA/F was in control of areas like the Kagera National Park, and RPA were dumping dead Hutus and (French-speaking) Tutsis in the Kagera River. The infamous mythology about Tutsi bodies floating down the Kagera River is completely contradicted by the declassified memo from Mark Prutsalis of the NGO Refugees International.

In a May 17, 1994 situation report (SITREP #10: Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania) to Refugees International headquarters in Washington D.C., Mark Prutsalis described documented RPA atrocities on the Tanzania-Rwanda border. The document details gruesome and egregious war crimes, crimes against humanity and the indiscriminate killing of both Hutus and Tutsi civilians by RPA soldiers -- atrocities witnessed and documented by foreigners working for UNHCR and UNICEF, and for the international NGOs Refugees International, Red Cross, CARE, International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

For example:

"The following are excerpts from a UNHCR-Ngara protection report on border crossing points from an assessment made on 14 and 15 May:"

"At RUSUMO commune, sector KIGARAMA, the RPF came and called for a 'peace meeting'. Those, who did not participate voluntarily, were forced to the meeting. At the school people were tied together, three by three -- men/women/children - and stabbed. The bodies were put on trucks and thrown into the Kagera River, north of Rusumo Bridge..."

"At RUSUMO commune, sectors NYAMUGARI, GISENYI, NYARUBUJE, the RPF comes at 05h00 waiting for villagers to open their doors. The villagers are caught and taken away to the river by trucks. No one has returned. Refugees from the area have seen people being tied together and thrown into the river. It seems as if guns are used only if somebody tries to escape..."

At RUSUMO commune, sector MUZAZA, village GASARABWAYI (4 kms from the river), the RPF launched several attacks on the village and its population. On the 13.05 [May 13] 40 RPF soldiers came at 07h00. They surrounded the village. Villagers were gathered in houses, which were burned down. An eyewitness saw 20 people being killed this way. 8 villagers were thrown into a latrine, and the latrine was filled with soil. Asked by UNHCR field officer refugees said that the RPF did not care whether victims were Hutu or Tutsi villagers."

"An IRC staff person wrote to their office," the Refugees International SITREP concluded. "Things are getting very bad at the border here... Someone really needs to do something about all of the [RPA] killing and torture on the other [Rwanda] side. Each day there are more and more bodies in the river and most of them without their heads; the count is between 20 and 30 each 30 minutes."

"The people of Rwanda have nowhere else to go and we cannot expect them to stay and be slaughtered in their homes," Mark Prutsalis wrote. "This remote inaccessible part of Tanzania cannot continue to receive thousands of refugees per day. We will soon be overwhelmed here unless someone takes action to end the bloodshed, the atrocities, the massacres in Rwanda."

The genocide against Tutsis and Hutus continued after 1994 and there has never been a U.S. investigation into the roles of the Pentagon, CIA and DIA in the cataclysms in Rwanda and Congo-Zaire.

One direct witness to events in Rwanda leading up the 1994 genocide was a
researcher connected to a foreign NGO who knows something about NASA
space shuttle images collected over Rwanda but who has never gone
public. Witness GOR-2 (not connected to the Munyenyezi case) worked
closely with the Juvenal Habyarimana regime prior to April 1994 and
again closely with the new Kagame government after 1994.

Witness GOR-2 described how the RPA/F used the Volcanoes National Park
as a military base to launch Congo-Zaire operations after 1994. Witness
GOR-2 had regular contact with the Rwandan Ministry of Defense, the
office of President Kagame, and with former RPA Secretary General
Theogene Rudasingwa. According to GOR-2, there were NASA space shuttle
flights over Zaire and Rwanda in April and September of 1994, on U.S.
government-sponsored research under contract NAS7-1260.

GOR-2 said that white soldiers driving tanks were seen inside the park heading to Zaire in September 1996. GOR-2 said that the United Nation's IRIN report described this as U.S. soldiers going into Goma but that the IRIN report was quickly removed from the Internet. GOR-2 explained how the RPA/F would close the Volcanoes National Park for days at a time while involved in military operations and 'clean-ups': "The Rwandan Patriotic Army would just close the park for days at a time and we didn't know what was going on in there."

GOR-2 explained how the Volcanoes National Park was flooded with thousands of Rwandan refugees returning from Zaire after the U.S.-backed invasion by Kagame and Museveni forces in 1996, and that the park became an RPA 'killing zone'.

"We had a massive clean-up operation to remove bodies in 1999," GOR-2 said, "trying to get out all the dead bodies, and all the rags and pots and pans."

GOR-2 was always in close personal contact with Major Richard Skow, the U.S. military attaché from the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, and Robert E. Gribbon, the U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda at the time.

GOR-2 described airborne remote sensing flyovers using a new state-of-the-art technology involving hyper-spectral analysis where flights were made over Rwanda and eastern Congo. GOR-2 claims that some 22 CDs of raw data were delivered by Claire Richardson, the head of the USA-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (DFGF), to Theogene Rudasingwa at the Rwandan Ministry of Defense. GOR-2 said the flyovers were coordinated by the National Geographic Society and DFGF and were supposedly for gorilla conservation -- habitat mapping -- but were actually meant to locate mineral resources that the RPA could exploit.

DFGF's initiatives in remote sensing occurred in partnerships with two high-technology intelligence and defense research firms, the Idaho-based Earth Search Sciences Inc. (ESSI) and an affiliated firm, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). The secrecy of these firms, the lack of oversight and the suspicious nature of the projects suggests they may be involved in covert operations in Central Africa.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) was created in 2003.
Prior to 2003 it was known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(NIMA), which in 1996 absorbed four highly secretive intelligence
entities: National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), Defense
Mapping Agency (DMA), the Defense Dissemination Program Office, and the
Central Imagery Office.

According to one NIMA report, "[i]n the late
1990's... NIMA supported humanitarian relief efforts in Rwanda and
Uganda with quickly produced Landsat image maps used by U.N. relief
workers to deliver aid shipments to the refugee camps." Knowing what we now know, NIMA operatives from the 1990's should be deposed under oath and NIMA documents declassified and thoroughly scrutinized.

The
satellite imaging conducted over Rwanda from 1990 to 1994 probably
involved the DMA and NPIC. DMA was formed in 1973 to consolidate
mapping operations of the armed forces. NPIC began in 1953 as an
expansion of the CIA's photo-interpretation organization. NPIC was the
agency that identified the missiles that created the Cuban missile
crises and also flew the U-2 spy planes that were being shot down over
Red China.

According to the NGA web site: "As both a member of
the U.S. Intelligence Community and a Department of Defense Combat
Support Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
produces timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence, or
GEOINT, to help all levels of users meet their strategic and operational
needs in support of national security.

A cursory review of NGA
personnel reveals close ties many deep intelligence and defense
entities, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Boeing, SAIC and a
variety of other beyond Top Secret entities like ERDA and ESRI. NGA
'customers' include the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of
Defense, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

A prosecution witness in the Munyenyezi trial, Pentagon analyst Eric Benn joined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
in 1983 and he was promoted to Senior Analyst for the DIA's Office for
Imagery
Analysis in 1991. He attended the National War College at Ft. McNair
1993-1994 and received a Masters Degree in National Security Studies.
"The Technical Executive of NGA's Analysis and Production Directorate,
Eric Benn serves as the principal adviser to the NGA, IC and DoD
leadership on the current and future Geospatial Intelligence analytic
environment."

Beyond supporting the 16 Intelligence Community (IC) 'customers', one of
the primary responsibilities of NIMA (and its predecessor agencies) is
to support Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities (TIARA) and
warfighting command. NGA's geospatial intelligence mission supports four main customer sets: (1) The warfighter; (2) National policymakers; (3) Local first responders through federal agencies (FEMA, etc.); (4) Intelligence Community (IC) partners.

The U.S. Army's GEOINT Battalion traces its lineage back to
the U.S. Army Intelligence Threat and Analysis Center (ITAC) organized in
1975.In 1977, ITAC was provisionally
established by Headquarters, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
(INSCOM) as a major subordinate command and was collocated with the Defense
Intelligence Agency at Arlington Hall Station.In 1985, ITAC was placed under the control
of the Army Intelligence Agency until 1991, when it was again placed under
INSCOM.

According
to the U.S. Army's own description:"Since its origins in ITAC, the Army
GEOINT Battalion has provided geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) in support of
all major U.S. campaigns.Combat
operations supported over the last 20 years include Operation Desert Storm
(Kuwait), Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti), Operation Restore Hope (Somalia),Operation Support Hope (Rwanda), Operation Joint
Endeavor (Bosnia), Operation Allied Force (Kosovo), Operation Enduring Freedom
(Afghanistan), Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq), and Operation New Dawn (Iraq)."

It is interesting
that the U.S. Army defines Operation Support Hope as a major U.S. 'combat
operation' and lists it along with all these other major combat operations.Wikipedia and other sources describe Operation Support Hope
as a purely humanitarian mission: "a
1994 United States military effort to provide immediate relief for the refugees of the Rwandan Genocide and allow a smooth transition to a
full United Nations humanitarian management program.

As we know, someone is lying. In fact, many people have been lying.

On July 22,
1994 President Clinton announced Operation Support Hope and two days later
American joint task forces were airlifted to Goma, Zaire; Kigali, Rwanda; Entebbe, Uganda; and Mombasa, Kenya. U.S. Air Force liaison officers were assigned to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)'s air operations cell in
Geneva and assigned to joint logistics cells and civil-military
operations centers in the field.

The joint
task force was headquartered in Entebbe, with the role of providing a cargo
airlift to supplement United Nations efforts.The United States Army purportedly set up a "major water
supply system at the refugee camp in Goma and helped bury the dead."During the peak of Operation Support Hope in
late August, the United States had 2350 service members deployed.As part of Operation Support Hope, the
American defense contractor Halliburton Corporation earned $US 6.3 million
through its engineering and construction subsidiary Kellogg Brown
& Root
(KBR).

Hindsight, and plenty of evidence, suggests that
Operation Support Hope was a full-blown military operation to support the RPA/F
and UPDF against the fleeing Hutu masses. The U.S. military does not altruistically
provide humanitarian aid to refugees -- especially when those refugees are
considered the enemy as the Hutus were and the Pentagon's proxy army is
consolidating power over a war zone as was the RPA.UNHCR
also proved to be hostile to the Hutu refugees.Given the magnitude and speed of mortality amongst the refugee
population, Operation Support Hope may even have involved biological
weapons.

These satellite photographs and all the ties to the deep intelligence apparatus make it clear that intelligence was not
lacking and the U.S. government is in possession of evidence that would
answer serious questions about what really happened and in the eastern
Congo.

Thanks to the ' fact of ' the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency images having been declassified and introduced in the trial of Beatrice Munyenyezi, if there is any power beyond the words "never again" it is that now
never again can the U.S. officials in power at the time -- William Jefferson Clinton (President) or Warren Christopher (Secretary of State) or Madeleine Albright (Ambassador to the United Nations) or William
Perry (Secretary of Defense) or R. James Woolsey (CIA Director) or Anthony Lake (National Security Adviser) -- claim that they didn't know what was happening on the
ground in Rwanda. They did. They always did. They knew at the time
and they have known since.

RWANDA'S ONGOING PLUNDER OF CONGO

The U.S. Department of Defense also
oversees and supports plunder and depopulation in the Eastern Congo,
where Rwanda and Uganda maintain economic, political and military
control.

Under the cover of military operations to capture and kill
supposed Rwandan 'genocidaires' in Congo (Forces for the Democratic
Liberation of Rwanda) and supposed Ugandan terrorists (including Joseph
Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army) western mining companies have been stripping and shipping Congolese
minerals without oversight or regulation since the Pentagon-backed
invasion of September 1996.

Canadian Banro Corporation is one of the most secretive corporations operating in Congo, and they have established and maintained their control through very tight relations with the Kagame regime. Banro has taken over thousands of hectares of South Kivu province by manipulating the local mwamis (chiefs), by bribing officials and by infiltrating officials onto power who are friendly to Banro and Kagame's interests.

Banro describes its operations as 'stable' and 'community-aligned' but local human rights groups paint a very different picture, one of terrorism all over the region. Banro's secutrity manager is from the private military company Erinys International, a British mercenary firm 'registered' in the British Virgin Islands. Banro works exclusively with Erinys International, a firm that also operates in Iraq.

The areas around Banro concessions (e.g. Shabunda, Fizi, Walungu) have seen some of the worst bloodshed in all of the Congo, often perpetrated by Rwandan forces connected to Paul Kagame and then blamed on Congolese Mai Mai or the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

The Banro concessions can be seen in the map below, where total territory under Banro exploration is almost as big as the entire countries of Rwanda or Burundi. This would not be possible without a close military and intelligence alliance between Banro and the Kagame government. On 7 March 2012, Banro announced plans to start its second mine in DRC,

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[1] See: Ndiaye, B.w., Report by Special Rapporteur on his mission to Rwanda from 8 to 17 April 1993, Commission on Human Rights, U.N. Economic and Social Council document E/CN.4/1994/7/Add.1, 11 August 1993, p. 23.

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thanks for the contribution. It uncovers the dirty game of political criminals and exemplified also the background. I've been recently in Rwunda and could tell you much more abaut it. I tried to figure out what really happend those days, so I've been some specific places in order to get in touch with the locals more closly. They told me unbelievable thinks abaut this Genocide. Tutsi as well than Hutu. Up to now it's hard to get out this tragedy of my system.

This isn't an exact translation, but will roughly say the essence of the above.

Resorting to violence, civil war isn't the solution, not a permanent kind anyway. We need a democratic sort of revolution. Voters need to be persuaded that they've been wrong and must cease electing and re-electing unvetted and unvettable candidates. Et cetera.

We need government, politics cleansed of corruption. We need voters to wake up and cease electing an re-electing unvettable candidates. And that's the starting point, or one of the starting points, for we also have election or voting fraud going on with electronic voting that can be easily falsified. And when voter ballots are on paper, then there're many stories about boxes of such ballots "disappearing". Maybe it didn't happen in the USA, but it certainly did in some other countries, and a "funny" thing about those cases is that the "mysterious" disappearance of such boxes worked out "favourably" for Washington and its masters.

While I can empathize with the emotional reaction of wanting civil war, I don't think it can provide a lasting solution, if the war was won by the revolutionists, say.

Furthermore, there's the post by Jonasse.

Jonasse refers to the Congolese as having made idotic decisions.

Did the majority of Congolese make the sort of mistake Jonasse is referring to, or has the problem mostly been due to electoral fraud committed in one or more ways?

we are going to spread this info in all our networks, the people must know, and to araise their awareness is best way to a powerful congo, knowing where the enemies are, knowing how friends lies
such as the Bible says 'i m protecting myself from my friends Lord protect me from my enemies...

This mess was made possible by congolese collaborators, let 's have a leadership caring for it s own people not corrupted and coresponsible of its people nightmare...and devastation...

[From on-line English translator for English readers: "Mr Jean Pierre may be that hope summers Rwandans, it is true that the Congolese must be objective in the judgment? One thing is clear, Kagame has played and continues to update a large role in the suffering and killing of millions of the Congolese people, he is the enemy of Congolese and enemy of his own brothers, these information, we have always had informally or informally of the testimony of the Rwandans therefore, the Congolese must know the origin of their problem and their suffering."